Televen (a portmanteau for Televisión de Venezuela) is a private Venezuelan national television network headquarted on the Caracas neighborhood of Horizonte. For this reason is also call 'Canal de Horizonte'. Televen was inaugurated as the ‘’TELEVEN Corporation’’ (Corporación TELEVEN, S.A) on July 3 1988 by Omar Camero and Radioven, S.A. As an alternative for the two-leading-private TV Networks on Venezuela, Radio Caracas Televisión (RCTV) and Venevisión, Televen distanced itself from this trend and made a different oriented programming in some cases the middle classes who do not usually watch TV and it was open and being composed of talk shows, sports, movies, a full range series, mainly U.S., And Brazilian telenovelas, Colombian and Mexican.